hey fellas i jus spent the afternoon cruising around looking for weight lifting chalk (magnesium carbonate), since doing deads with either gloves or nothing at all (sweat lol) just isnt possible for me...my fingers open up faster than pacesetter with 2 beers in him

what do you guys use? i used gloves for years but using that chalky stuff gives me some great callouses so im switching to that...

i tried putting it in a squeeze bottle so it doesnt go everywhere (its powdered) so ill see how it all goes...its great stuff - at random times through the day i just spray some water under my arms and put some chalk on my hands and i look haaaaaaaaardcore :p

Yeh, I've always used gloves. It keeps my hands smooth, and
stops me from getting rough calloused hands. I give my wife a
massage every night, and a few lady friends of mine, from time to
time. So I guess it's all a matter of preferance.

I have never used gloves, I tried them for 1 week like 10 years ago..they did nothing but bunch up and cause blisters on my hands. Ive used wrist straps and chalk for heavy deads for a long time now.

"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil....'cause I'm the biggest, meanest, son-of-a-bitch in the place."

"People are always talking about getting motivated to go on a diet. Motivation is worthless. There's no way in hell you'll still be motivated after your 200th chicken breast washed down with plain broccoli. You have to be DEDICATED. Dedication is what remains when all motivation has left, and you can't stand to do more cardio, because you've read every magazine ever produced, you'd rather eat the ass out of a dead donkey than one more plain chicken breast, and your typical routine of thinking of sex every five seconds has been replace by food every 2 seconds. It's the DEDICATION that takes us to where we want to be." - Trop

I had trouble with holding the bar when I started training, even when I was a runt 60kg get's heavy quickly holding it.

All I did was change my technique from 1 hand over, 1 hand under, then build up from there, it stopped my hands slipping and help me dead some good lifts, I'm only a weakling but my best stiff leg dead lift was 130kg for 6 reps, I thought that was good at 74kg, couldn't do it now though.